How do models for evaluation differ from research strategies?
Evaluation results are provided to the appropriate stakeholders for the purpose of program or project improvement.
Evaluation results are not provided to stakeholders, only to the program creators for the purpose of program or project improvement.
True or false: research involves the scientific method, which controls variables such as behaviors in an attempt to explain and predict.
True or False: When one evaluates, he/she is trying to learn what is going on in a particular program for people who are interested in that program.
What is the most common attribute of all evaluation models?
A focus on the object of the intervention or innovation in question.
Determining what the objective of the program in question is and deciding on its success or failure.
Which of the following statements explains the Discrepancy Model of evaluation?
This model works to explain why something may have occurred rather than the fact that it actually did occur.
This model examines how and what the program is doing to address needs in the client population.
Which of the following explains the goal-free evaluation model?
What is the aim of the Transaction Model of evaluation?
This model combines monitoring with process evaluation through a continuous back-and-forth interaction between evaluator and staff.
What is the motive for the Decision-Making Model?
The focus is on decisions that need to be made in the future.
Why is the Goal-Based Model of evaluation the easiest to you and the most often used?
The evaluator is NOT looking to measure specified outcome variables using quantitative or qualitative methods.
The evaluator IS looking to measure specified outcome variables using quantitative or qualitative methods.
True or False: Various questions raised by evaluators regarding a program represent real interests of the stakeholders providing information about what they wish to know about the program so that it may be improved.
